There is also a dearth of good male role models in the public sphere.

> This doesn't really do much. It creates no consumer rights. It does give CFPB examiners the power to examine records and interview people

Examination power means the CFPB can act on consumer complaints. It’s an enormous practical expansion of power.

> What does base metabolic variability have to do with using CICO to modify your weight?

Metabolic syndrom is characterised by the basal metabolic rate reducing in response to reduced calorie intake or increased caloric expenditure. In most of us this is good. It gets the immune system to quit mucking around, for instance. In the obese, however, it can sometimes mean their bodies will literally stop doing essential shit before it will concede and begin burning fat. It will then do everything it can to refill those fat cells.

You can model a human thermodynamically. But to my knowledge, this isn't used in medicine because it isn't practical. (I'm saying this, by the way, as someone who can eat anything and laze around and not gain weight because my metabolism is tuned the other way.)

CICO reminds me of something we do in finance: burying the complexity in a magic variable. For CICO, it's the CO. Because if you decompose it into its active and inactive components. Exercise is the former. But the latter absolutely dominates that term.

> same way your heart "knows" how to beat - it's a lower level function that happens without your conciousness

Heart cells in a Petri dish will happily beat away.

> There is very little shipping between us ports. Not zero, but not much

A one-shot solution to reducing inflation and emissions would be in repealing the Jones Act. (Also, increasing the prevalence of ferry transport.)